Spanish Sentence Builders - TRILOGY - Part III - Grammar Booklet (The Language Gym - Sentence Builder)

Spanish Sentence Builders: Trilogy – Part III - GRAMMAR BOOKLET has been conceived as a supplement to our Spanish Sentence Builders: Trilogy – Part III book.

It is divided into 14 units, with matching Sentence Builders from the main Trilogy book. Each of the units is based around one Main Grammar Focus, which is explained and then taught via an array of engaging Conti, EPI, vocab building, translation and writing tasks. There are also additional Pop-up Grammar sections to introduce and teach other grammatical points required throughout the book.

TERM 1
Unit 1 – Talking about a past holiday: where we went & stayed

• Grammar focus: Revisiting the preterite tense
• Pop-up grammar: fue vs era

Unit 2 – Talking about a past holiday: what we did and our opinion

• Grammar focus: Using superlatives
• Pop-up grammar: me gustaría + conditional opinions

Unit 3 – Describing a typical day

• Grammar focus: Reviewing the present, preterite and immediate future tenses
• Pop-up grammar: Reviewing modal verbs

Unit 4 – Describing a typical day at school

• Grammar focus: Using times and sequencers
• Pop-up grammar: Reviewing deber & poder

Unit 5 – OPTIONAL: Talking about when I went to la Tomatina festival

• Grammar focus: Using weather verbs in the preterite
• Pop-up grammar: Using reflexive verbs in the preterite

TERM 2
Unit 6 – Talking about yesterday after school

• Grammar focus: Regular and irregular preterite verbs
• Pop-up grammar: Using para

Unit 7 – Talking about what I did last weekend

• Grammar focus: Present participles
• Pop-up grammar: Using para

Unit 8 – Talking about a recent outing to the cinema with friends

• Grammar focus: Using the preposition de
• Pop-up grammar: fue and fueron

Unit 9 – Talking about a birthday party we went to

• Grammar focus: Indirect object pronouns
• Pop-up grammar: haber in the imperfect tense

Unit 10 – OPTIONAL: Making plans for next weekend

• Grammar focus: Using a and de after the verb ir
• Pop-up grammar: Using si clause to express a wish

TERM 3
Unit 11 – Talking about jobs

• Grammar focus: Masculine and feminine job titles
• Pop-up grammar: Revisiting opinion verbs

Unit 12 – My dreams and aspirations: my life plans

• Grammar focus: Using querer to express future intentions
• Pop-up grammar: Revisiting the immediate future

Unit 13 – Talking about celebrities and role models

• Grammar focus: Using the perfect tense
• Pop-up grammar: Possessive adjectives

Unit 14 – My summer holiday & back-to-school plans

• Grammar focus: Infinitive verb structures
• Pop-up grammar: Revisiting the present participle

It should be noted that every grammatical structure in this book is included in the new GCSE specification.

If you are an EPI user:
You will employ this book in the Awareness and Expansion/Explanation phases of the MARSEARS cycle. In the Awareness phase, you will simply raise your students’ awareness of which grammatical structure you want them to focus on throughout the ensuing instructional sequence; in the latter Expansion/Explanation phase you will engage in a full-blown explanation of the target structure and will use the activities to drill it in.